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Excellent, detailed article about a new much more inclusive Skin Tone scale developed by Dr. Ellis Monk working with Google to provide “a fuller range of darker skin tones than the cruder tools currently used” to train AI data sets in medical situations, and, more urgently, to fix pulse oximeters that don’t work as well on people of color. Very sharp read:
https://www.statnews.com/2022/12/05/unbiased-pulse-oximeters-researchers-need-better-way-to-measure-skin-tone/
#BlackMastodon #BlackFriday #medicine #Black #health #race #diversity #inclusion #PulseOximeter #oxygen

—@tmorman

Took my car in early this morning for a one hour service and ended up with an eight hour service.
So lucky my daughter rescued me and gave me a ride home.
Got back in time to take Summer on her rounds. It felt wonderful to see some sunshine.
Summer loves her acre. After a routine patrol, she rolled around in the dry grass and partied a little bit.
Happy puppy. Happy Friday.
#DogsOfMastodon

—@norcalgrandma

I made this pin back in disability pride month in 20122. I’d love if you all could boost this and potentially buy some of my art. I’m a black, disabled non-binary lesbian who is homeless and my life is in DANGER. Any boost here will greatly help me.

Buy the pin here: https://www.redbubble.com/i/pin/So-What-I-Have-A-Disability-by-prideworldwide/115896155.NP9QY?asc=u

—@blackenbylesbo

The sudden collapse of Silicon Valley Bank is sending absolute shockwaves through the tech industry. Nobody is really buying into the narrative that “The risk of contagion is low” – the bottom line is, we don’t know. The last 8 years in tech have been really strange, driven by wild monetary policy driving reckless investment decisions even from VC’s whom I considered to be fairly conservative. We are due for a wider reckoning. https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/10/investing/svb-bank/index.html

—@chadloder

So. Wondering what my ‘thing’ was?

https://make.wordpress.org/plugins/2023/03/10/advance-notice-of-retirement/

This is me letting y’all know that by 1-July-2023, I will not be the plugin rep no more.

This is 100% my choice, no one asked/forced/told me to do it.

Gotta take care of ME first.

—@ipstenu

By announcing a Fediverse social network, Meta has put itself in a near-impossible situation:

Having to maintain cash cow centralized social networks, while “planning” to build a decentralized social network that could put the company itself out of business.

And you wonder why I’m skeptical?

—@atomicpoet

What Meta has actually done is advertise the Fediverse to millions of people who have never heard of it before.

It doesn’t matter if they build anything. They just acknowledged that decentralized social media is the future.

And guess what? Meta’s current centralized products are not the future.

—@atomicpoet

Silicon Valley Bank collapsing and the US FDIC stepping in is just another data point in a long line of tech bros being allowed to privatize their profits and socialize their losses.

—@grmpyprogrammer

“Let me be blunt: encryption is either broken for everyone, or it works for everyone. There is no way to create a safe backdoor.”

Signal calls the #OnlineSafetyBill what it is, a menace to privacy and a way to impose mass surveillance via our messaging apps. #surveillace #e2ee

A must read 👇

https://signal.org/blog/uk-online-safety-bill/

—@openrightsgroup

“Any email user interface is called the Mail User Agent (MUA). This might be Thunderbird, a web page, or a corporate manifestation of the Dark Side only used because Lord Vader declared it the standard.” #ryoms #nonotryagain

—@mwl

Publications crossposting tweets in which they link one of their posts as a retweet of someone else’s thread which you can’t click on because they don’t include links to the actual tweet has to be the ultimate Twitter crossposting fail. We promise we will never do this because we believe in the fediverse and what its community is trying to build and we want to help build it with you.

—@worldblindherald